Handbook of the Ryukyuan Languages : : History, Structure, and Use / / ed. by Patrick Heinrich, Shinsho Miyara, Michinori Shimoji.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Mark,; Aoi, Hayato,; Arakaki, Tomoko,; Aso, Reiko,; Bentley, John R.,; Clarke, Hugh,; Davis, Christopher,; Gillan, Matt,; Griesenhofer, Christopher,; Hara, Kiyoshi,; Heinrich, Patrick,; Kageyama, Taro,; Karimata, Shigehisa,; Kádár, Dániel Z.,; Lau, Tyler,; Lawrence, Wayne,; Matayoshi, Satomi,; Miyahira, Katsuyuki,; Miyara, Shinsho,; Nagano-Madsen, Yasuko,; Niinaga, Yuto,; Nishioka, Satoshi,; Ogawa, Shinji,; Osterkamp, Sven,; Pellard, Thomas,; Petrucci, Peter R.,; Shibatani, Masayoshi,; Shigeno, Hiromi,; Shimoji, Kayoko,; Shimoji, Michinori,; Shinzato, Rumiko,; Sugita, Yuko,; Tokunaga, Akiko,; Yamada, Masahiro,; van der Lubbe, Gijs,
• HerausgeberIn: Heinrich, Patrick,; Miyara, Shinsho,; Shimoji, Michinori ,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics [HJLL] , 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (723 p.)

The UNESCO atlas on endangered languages recognizes the Ryukyuan languages as constituting languages in their own right. This represents a dramatic shift in the ontology of Japan’s linguistic make-up. Ryukyuan linguistics needs to be established as an independent field of study with its own research agenda and objects. This handbook delineates that the UNESCO classification is now well established and adequate. Linguists working on the Ryukyuan languages are well advised to refute the ontological status of the Ryukyuan languages as dialects. The Ryukyuan languages constitute a branch of the Japonic language family, which consists of five unroofed Abstand (language by distance) languages.The Handbook of Ryukyuan Languages provides for the most appropriate and up-to-date answers pertaining to Ryukyuan language structures and use, and the ways in which these languages relate to Ryukyuan society and history. It comprises 33 chapters, written by the leading experts of Ryukyuan languages. Each chapter delineates the boundaries and the research history of the field it addresses, comprises the most important and representative information.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Introduction to the Handbooks of Japanese Language and Linguistics -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- List of tables -- List of figures -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: Ryukyuan languages and Ryukyuan linguistics -- I. Overview -- 1. The Linguistic archeology of the Ryukyu Islands -- 2. Proto-Ryukyuan -- 3. A Sketch History of Pre-Chamberlainian Western Studies of Ryukyuan -- 4. B. J. Bettelheim 1849: The first grammar of Ryukyuan -- II. Linguistic features -- 5. Ryukyuan languages: A grammar overview -- 6. A generative approach to focusing in Okinawan -- 7. Lexicon -- 8. Phonological aspects of Ryukyuan languages -- 9. Intonation in Okinawan -- 10. The tense-aspect-mood systems of the Ryukyuan languages -- 11. Tense, Aspect, and Mood in Miyara Yaeyaman -- 12. Okinawan kakari musubi in historical and comparative perspectives -- III. Grammars of individual languages -- 13. Amami grammar -- 14. Okinoerabu grammar -- 15. Shuri Okinawan grammar -- 16. Tarama Miyako grammar -- 17. Hateruma Yaeyama grammar -- 18. Dunan grammar (Yonaguni Ryukyuan) -- IV. Sociolinguistics -- 19. Substrate-influenced Japanese and code-switching -- 20. Local language varieties and the media -- 21. Uchinaaguchi in the linguistic landscape of Heiwa Dōri and Makishi Market -- 22. Uchinaaguchi as an online symbolic resource within and across the Okinawan diaspora -- 23. Orthography development -- V. Sociology of language -- 24. Japanese language spread -- 25. Language shift -- 26. Language and identity in Okinawa and Amami: Past, present and future -- 27. Linguistic and cultural revitalization -- 28. Chinese kanwa textbooks: Language education, power and cultural expansion -- 29. Ryukyuan languages in Ryukyuan music -- VI. Bibliography -- 30. A selected bibliography of Ryukyuan dialectology -- Index